Cairns

1 Canberra to Cairns via Mebourne, who would have thought it. Melbourne airport where we waited for 2+ hours between flights	2	3 Palm Cove Beach, North Cairns	4
5	6 looking up from the beach at Palm Cove's main street	7 The Jetty, Palm Cove beach	8
9 Swimming are inside the net, keeps out "stingers"	10	11	12 Betty
13 Island just out from the beach, picture taken from the jetty	14 My 3 girls	15 looking at the beach from the end of the jetty	16 Kristie
17 apparently I'm funny?	18	19	20 launch your boat
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25 an expensive dress shop	26	27 coming into Green Island on the boat	28 Betty with our snorkels, flippers & stinger proof clothing
29 the Green Island just as we're about to tie up	30 the beach that we'll later go snorkelling from	31	32
33	34 2 of the boats that bring the tourists out to Green Island, ours was the back one	35	36
37	38	39 looking the coral through the side windows of the submersible boat	40 some fish including our friendly remora that hitched a ride with us
41	42 the remora again	43 the beach from which we went snorkelling	44
45	46	47	48 para gliding
49	50	51	52 the internal garden in the Holiday Inn Cairns where we stayed
53	54 Lake Eacham, Atherton Tablelands	55	56 getting lunch at Lake Eacham
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61	62 turtle in the water at Lake Eacham	63 on the walk around Lake Eacham	64 on the walk around Lake Eacham
65	66	67	68 on the Sky Rail on the way up to Kuranda
69 Renee	70 Kristie	71 looking down from our carriage on the Skyrail at a man made lake where people go water skiing	72
73 at one of the stops we went on a scenic walk in the rain forest	74 Betty being Betty	75 a tall tree :)	76 at the first stop over on the Sky Rail
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81 fearless bush turkey	82 the train that we'd later catch to get back to Cairns	83	84
85 Renee	86 Kristie	87 me	88 Betty & I
89 Kristie	90 Renee	91	92
93 one of the carriages they used to use to haul people up & down the mountain, note the angled seats because of the steep incline	94 Hawaian shirts, taken for my mate Rhod who loves loud shirts. On ya Rhod! ;)	95 Kuranda mail street	96 a spanish galleon, built by a rather unique person, since taken over by the aboriginals to exhibit their art, hence the colour scheme
97 Kuranda	98	99	100 ready fro a quick trip down the mountain
101 morning tea time	102	103 the mist that was present on the way back, taken from one of the train stops on the way down	104
105 a mother look	106 2 nuts?	107	108
109 waterfall	110	111	112
113 57 Chevy at The Strand, Townsville	114	115 Fuel Injection, 1957 style	116 2009 Audi, 1957 Chev, 42 years difference
117 mother & daughter	118 Townsville beach	119 The Strand, Townsville	120 The Strand, Townsville
121	122 The Strand, Townsville	123	124 black cockatoo, The Strand, Townsville
125 Renee sitting on a statue of a "sea cow"	126 the beach at Bowen	127 the beach at Bowen	128 the beach at Bowen
129	130 car park adjacent to the beach at Bowen	131	132 beach at Airlie Beach, very coarse sand
133	134	135	136 Renee on the swing at Airlie Beach
137 the Beach at Yeppoon	138	139	140
141	142	143 Yeppoon	144 another part of the beach at Yeppoon
145	146	147	148 no comment ;)
149 lorrikeets at the beach at Yeppoon	150	151	152
153 sunset at Yeppoon	154	155 sunset at Yeppoon	156 sunset at Yeppoon
157 the Audia A6 that we drove from Cairns to Brisbane, we originally booked a Falcon, an unexpected free upgrade	158 Audi again	159 the 2 girls want to get in on the action	160 does this remind you of that Mazda 3 ad?
161 Yeppoon	162 Yeppoon	163 Yeppoon	164 the cottage we stayed in at Bungara, on the coast near Bundaberg
165 42 James Steet, Noosa, where Mum & Dad owned a unit	166	167 Mum & Dad's old unit	168 James Street, Noosa
169 Hamilton Street, Noosa	170	171 Noosa beach, not much sand these days	172
173	174 Brisbane airport, while we wait to fly out.